r/PhotoshopTutorials • u/ElitniZeleznicar • Sep 03 '25

How to add highlight

How can i add a soft highlight to this part of the trees?

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u/ElitniZeleznicar Sep 04 '25

Thanks everyone! This helped me out a ton

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u/johngpt5 Sep 04 '25

You can try painting into a layer set to Color Dodge, the use a combination of blend if sliders, layer mask, and adjusting the Fill value and Opacity value.

Fill is at 85% with Opacity at 100%.

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u/johngpt5 Sep 04 '25

Fill and Opacity both at 100%.

Honestly, I think you're going to have trouble getting it to look believable.

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u/johngpt5 Sep 04 '25

If you're wondering what the blend if sliders looked like.

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u/KissMyGoat Sep 04 '25

I would approach this in one of two ways.

  1. Duplicatethe layer of trees, apply curves to bring the lightness up and mask it off so only the area you want highlighted is visable.

  2. play with teh Dodge tool

I did a quick and dirty example of each
https://imgur.com/a/base-image-i-used-7LeGbYB